From March, 1945, and one of the sources of endless speculation on the
"decline" of DOC............

A very odd cast. DOC, Renny, and Monk. No Ham, Off the top of my
head, I can't think of another one like this.

How are the guys doing financially? Renny is supposedly sleeping on a
cot in a room in his office. On the other hand, he's got at least
three rooms in mid-town, and a fulltime secretary, so you figure he
has to be doing OK. And with him overseas so much, it probably didn't
pay him to keep a regular place in wartime NYC.

Talk about Monk having been evicted from a swank apartment near Radio
City. But he always did have the reputation of being fast and loose
with $$$..

Then we get introspective DOC. DOC getting all misty-eyed over his
bizarre upbringing with some guy he barely knows who is involved in
the case, speculating that if he'd raised more heck as a boy he'd be a
more normal adult. Not sure what the intended phsycological masseage
to the reader would be.